Abstract
Abstract Controlling beam position in three-dimensional pencil-beam scanning is important because errors in beam position disturb the uniformity of irradiated dose distribution. To suppress this, we have developed a simple procedure for beamline tuning. Beamline tuning is performed with steering magnets and fluorescent screen monitors to converge a beam’s trajectory to a central orbit. The misalignment between beam position and a reference axis is determined through a verification system, which consists of a screen monitor and an acrylic phantom. If beam position deviates from the reference axis, two pairs of steering magnets, which are placed downstream of the beam transport line, correct the beam. These adjustments are iterated until the deviations for 11 energies of the beam are within 0.5 mm of the reference axis. To demonstrate the success of the proposed procedure, we used it to perform beam commissioning at the Kanagawa Cancer Center.
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